20120132329 - Tire chain and method of modifying a tire chain: A tire chain includes a side member. An attachment bracket is secured at a first end region to the side member. The attachment bracket is formed at a second end region with a slot and with a channel. A crosslink member has an endless link at one end. The endless... Agent: Pewag, Inc.

20120132335 - Racing kart tire: A racing kart tire having a diameter of not more than 300 mm comprises a tread portion provided with blocks divided by tread grooves having widths of 3 to 20 mm. The grooves include a center longitudinal groove. The blocks on each side of the tire equator include a row... Agent:

20120132336 - Tire: A pneumatic tire (10) provided in a rib-like land section (110) thereof with: an air chamber (130A) in which recessed portions (131) are repeated in the circumferential direction of the tire at predetermined pitches; and constriction groove (121) which communicate with the recessed portions (131). A height (H) changes in... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120132337 - Tread with incisions: A tread for passenger-vehicle tire having radially on the outside a running surface and comprising a plurality of elements, at least certain of these elements being provided with at least one incision delimited by two opposite faces, this incision consisting of a succession of thin sections and of thick sections... Agent: Societe De Technologie Michelin

20120132331 - Pneumatic tire: The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire 1 comprising at least one pair of parallel annular beads; at least one carcass ply 3 wrapped around said beads; a tread 5; and first and second sidewalls disposed between said tread and one of said at least one pair of... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Cmpany

20120132330 - Stiffness enhanced tread element: A tire tread may be formed by simultaneously extruding a tread cap formed of a first material and a tread base formed of a second material having a substantially different stiffness property than the first material. One tread element may have a strip of the second material extending from the... Agent:

20120132333 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of circumferential grooves and a first land portion. The circumferential grooves extend continuously in a tire circumferential direction. The first land portion extends in the tire circumferential direction between a pattern end and one of the circumferential grooves in a shoulder region located outside... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120132334 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire is provided with an asymmetric tread pattern which comprises an inboard shoulder longitudinal groove (3A) at an axial distance Xi from the tire equator (C) and an outboard shoulder longitudinal groove (3B) at an axial distance Xo from the tire equator (C). The distances Xi and Xo... Agent:

20120132338 - Run flat tire: A run flat tire where: the ratio of the cross-sectional height on the inner side in the radial direction to the cross-sectional height on the outer side in the radial direction, having the maximum tire width in a state inflated to an air pressure as a boundary; the inclination angle... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

05/24/2012 > 15 patent applications in14 patent subcategories.

20120125498 - Balance pads for balancing pneumatic tires: Balance pads for balancing pneumatic tires having DVA innerliners, and methods for balancing such pneumatic tires, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a balance pad is provided for balancing a pneumatic tire having a DVA innerliner. The balance pad includes an outer layer having a dynamically vulcanized alloy, which comprises an... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

20120125499 - Tread wear indicator: A tread wear indicator may be molded into the shoulder region of a tire tread and may have three symbols. Two of the symbols may be alphanumeric characters and the third symbol may surround the two symbols. All three symbols may be visible prior to wearing the tread. After the... Agent:

20120125501 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises, in a tread portion 1, at least two block groups GB1 to GB3 whose block number density is within a range of 0.003 pieces/mm2 to 0.04 pieces/mm2. At least one block group GB2 includes block 4 in which lateral length BW2 is larger that its longitudinal... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120125500 - Tire: A pneumatic tire (10) is provided with air chambers which have recessed portions (221), and also with constriction grooves which communicate with the air chambers and a circumferential groove (21), and the air chambers and the constriction grooves are formed in a rib-shaped land portion of the tire. The depth... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120125502 - Tire mounted anti-skid apparatus: Provided is a tire mounted anti-skid apparatus, in which a fixing plate is attached to a tire wheel through adaptors, and a support plate has a plurality of anti-skid arms is fitted to the fixing plate and is fixed on a side of the tire by a locking plate. Each... Agent: Autotrax International Pte. Ltd.

20120125503 - Device for increasing tire friction and method of using the same: A device and method for increasing tire friction is provided. The device is especially suitable for use on slippery roads, such as roads which have snow and/or ice. The device is permanently secured to the vehicle wheel assembly and easily installed over the tire for use. The device has a... Agent:

20120125504 - In-line pumping assembly for self-inflating tire: A tire for a self-inflating tire system includes a tire carcass having an annular air tube-receiving groove formed within a tire carcass wall and a pump assembly within the groove. The pump assembly includes an air tube having an axial air passageway; an inlet device positioned along the air tube,... Agent:

20120125505 - Method for recovering uncured rubber and tire including reclaimed rubber: A method for recovering uncured rubber from unused electron beam pre-cured rubber stock used in the manufacture of pneumatic tires. A first layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having cured rubber is skived with a band knife cutter blade from a second layer of the pre-cured rubber stock having uncured... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

20120125506 - Self-adhesive composite reinforcement: Composite reinforcement (R-2) that is self-adhesive by curing to a diene rubber matrix, which can be used as reinforcing element for a tire, comprising: at least one reinforcing thread (20), for example a carbon steel cord; a first layer (21) of a thermoplastic polymer, the glass transition temperature of which... Agent: Societe De Technologie Michelin

20120125507 - Tire with foamed noise damper: The present invention is directed to a method for making a tire having a foam noise damper, comprising the steps of: obtaining a tire having an innerliner, the innerliner having a surface facing an interior cavity of the tire; applying a foamable liquid to the surface; and foaming the foamable... Agent:

20120125508 - Pneumatic tire: The pneumatic tire according to the present invention having a carcass layer 5 toroidally extending from a tread portion 3 through a side wall portion 2 to a bead portion 1, and a belt layer 6 disposed at the outer side of the carcass layer 5 in the tire radial... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120125509 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread, a carcass and a belt structure interposed between the carcass and the tread. The belt structure includes a zigzag belt structure formed of at least two layers of cords interwoven together from a strip of rubber reinforced with one or more cords. The strip... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

20120125510 - Tire for self-inflating tire system: A tire for a self-inflating tire system includes an annular air tube-receiving groove formed within a tire carcass wall at a prescribed radial location. The groove has an access opening, a primary internal groove chamber dimensioned and profiled for close receipt of an annular air-pump tube. A secondary expansion chamber... Agent:

20120125511 - Pneumatic tire carcass with non-continuous ply in the bead areas: A carcass for a pneumatic tire may include a continuous ply and a non-continuous ply having first and second portions. The first and second portions may be positioned in the bead areas of the tire. Each end of the continuous ply may be positioned between the respective first and second... Agent:

20120125512 - Three-layer cord, rubberized in situ, for a tire carcass reinforcement: Metal cord (C-1) with three layers (C1, C2, C3), which is rubberized in situ, comprising a core or first layer (10, C1) of diameter d1, around which there are wound together in a helix at a pitch p2, in a second layer (C2), N wires (11) of diameter d2, N... Agent: Societe De Technologie Michelin

05/17/2012 > 16 patent applications in10 patent subcategories.

20120118453 - Hybrid steel-textile reinforcement ply for radial tires: The present invention relates to a hybrid steel-textile reinforcement ply for tires comprising at least one continuous steel cord (2), and at least one textile yarn (3), wherein the continuous steel cord (2) is weft inserted in the textile yarn (3) essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the weft... Agent:

20120118458 - Heavy duty pneumatic tire: A heavy duty pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with circumferentially continuous main grooves and lateral grooves to form blocks in circumferential rows. The main grooves include a pair of shoulder main grooves disposed one on each side of the tire equator so that the center line thereof is... Agent:

20120118459 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire comprises a shoulder land portion extending a tire circumferential direction on a tread surface, and a narrow groove extending in the tire circumferential direction on the shoulder land portion, wherein dimples are arranged in a staggered manner with respect to the tire circumferential direction while overlapping with... Agent: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120118460 - Tire: A pneumatic tire (10) provided with a rib-like land portion (110) having first resonators formed therein, and also with a rib-like land portion (210) located, when the tire is mounted on a vehicle, on the side of the tire closer to the vehicle than the rib-like land portion (110) and... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120118461 - Tire for construction vehicle: a narrow groove is provided such that a distance between an end portion of the outermost belt layer and a bottom portion of the narrow groove is in the range of 15% to 100% of a tread thickness T, where T is a tread thickness at the end portion of... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120118457 - Winter tyre: A tyre includes: a tread band on which is defined a radially outer tread surface, a first plurality of blocks provided on the tread band, and at least a first sipe of the restrained type extending on at least one block of the first plurality in a substantially axial direction... Agent: Pirelli Tyre S.p.a.

20120118456 - Pair of motor vehicle tyres: A pair of motor vehicle tyres includes a front tyre and a rear tyre to be mounted respectively on a front wheel and a rear wheel of a two-wheeled vehicle, each tyre of the pair having a tread band extending around an axis of rotation. The tread band of the... Agent: Pirelli Tyres S.p.a.

20120118454 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire improved in on-ice performance and on-snow performance in good balance. The pneumatic tire includes a tread portion extending in a tire circumferential direction and forming a ring shape, a pair of sidewall portions on both sides of the tread portion, respectively, and a pair of bead portions... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120118455 - Pneumatic tire: To make it possible to enhance uneven wear resistance while maintaining drainage performance, a pneumatic tire includes a left-right asymmetric tread pattern having a designated mounting orientation with respect to a vehicle. Vertical grooves include an inner shoulder circumferential groove disposed on an innermost side of the vehicle, and an... Agent:

20120118462 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has a tread rubber provided in a tread portion. The tread rubber comprises a cap rubber which constructs a contact surface, a base rubber arranged in an inner peripheral side of the cap rubber, and a cushion rubber formed by a rubber having a smaller storage elastic... Agent: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120118464 - Puncture sealant laminate: A puncture sealant laminate for prevention of a flat tire may include three layers of sealant material separated by two layers of non-sealant material. The two layers of non-sealant material may prevent the three layers of sealant material from contacting each other and they may have first and second ends... Agent:

20120118465 - Pneumatic tire with barrier layer and method of making the same: A pneumatic tire and a method of making a tire are provided. The tire includes a tire tread, a tire layer, and a barrier layer. The tire layer is circumferentially disposed inwardly of the tire tread and includes a first end and a second end situated adjacent each other to... Agent:

20120118466 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire has no spew or no spew trace on a sidewall surface of the pneumatic tire and reduces air resistance. The tire includes a plurality of dimple-like recesses and a plurality of linear valley portions. The dimple-like recesses are provides in a first region including a tire maximum... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120111461 - Process and apparatus for building tires for vehicle wheels: A process and an apparatus for building tires for vehicle wheels wherein the process includes the step of assembling components of elastomeric material on a forming support, in which at least one of the components of elastomeric material is manufactured by the steps of: i) dispensing a continuous elongated element... Agent:

20120111462 - Self-balancing pneumatic tire and method of making the same: A self-balancing pneumatic tire is provided having a built-in balancing gel system. In one embodiment, the tire, before cure, includes a green pneumatic tire assembly having an uncured tread defining an outermost layer; a first barrier layer; a second barrier layer situated adjacent the first barrier layer and intermediate the... Agent:

20120111463 - Elastomeric insert for supporting a tire and mounted assembly incorporating it: The invention provides an insert for supporting a pneumatic tire which is intended to support substantially the entire internal face of the pneumatic tire and has a radially internal face intended to sit atop a wheel rim that accepts the pneumatic tire, has at least one cavity designed to be... Agent: Hutchinson

20120111464 - Method for manufacturing base tire, curing machine, and base tire: A method for manufacturing a base tire ensuring a cure-molding of a green tire therefor without overcure or undercure in the thin-walled shoulder portions of the tread region and the bead regions, a curing machine that preferably enables the base tire manufacturing method, and a base tire thus manufactured are... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Bridgestone

20120111467 - Pneumatic tire with tread having ground contact shape and uneven wear sacrificial protrusion: A pneumatic tire with an air pressure corresponding to maximum loading, such that the ground contact shape has a gradually decreasing circumferential direction length from the tire width direction center to the portion corresponding towards the tire width direction outermost circumferential groove, followed by the ground contact shape having a... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120111465 - Motor vehicle tyre: Motor vehicle tyre adapted to be mounted on the rear wheel of a motor vehicle, includes a tread band having a tread pattern including a module which is repeated along a direction of circumferential extension of the tyre. The module has at least one first pair of first grooves inclined... Agent:

20120111466 - Pneumatic tire: In a pneumatic tire 1, a center land portion 5a between center main grooves 3, a middle land portion 5b between the center main groove 3 and a shoulder main groove 4, and a pair of shoulder land portions 5c extending on outer sides of the shoulder main groove 4... Agent:

20120111468 - Bicycle tire: The present invention relates to a bicycle tire. More particularly, the bicycle tire is formed by foaming synthetic resin materials and is mounted to a rim of a bicycle, wherein the tire is prevented from being unexpectedly separated from the rim in use. That is, the bicycle tire formed by... Agent: Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.

20120111469 - Adhesive composition and pneumatic tire using same: Provided is an adhesive composition that provides excellent adhesion between a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer in which an elastomer component is dispersed in the thermoplastic resin and a tire by a combination of general-purpose materials, without using any special polymer. The adhesive composition comprises 100 parts by weight... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120111470 - Tire including a continuous pressure membrane: Tire including a continuous pressure membrane. The tire includes a carcass, a rubber layer surrounding the carcass, and a belt. The carcass includes at least one continuous pressure membrane defining a generally U-shaped cross section. The pressure membrane includes a crown portion, a first sidewall portion, and a second sidewall... Agent: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

05/03/2012 > 17 patent applications in13 patent subcategories.

20120103483 - Tyre inflation valve connectable to a transducer: A valve (30) for inflating tyres (10) of tyred wheels associable with a transducer (40) provided with electronic sensors for detection and transmission of certain operating parameters of the tyre (10), wherein the valve is arranged for being mounted on a rim (20) of a wheel for vehicles so that... Agent: Wonder Spa

20120103484 - Pneumatic tire: A wear indicator provided on a tread surface is constituted of seven sipes of an uppermost sipe, a lowermost sipe and an intermediate sipe, each extending in a lateral direction; and an upper-left sipe, an upper-right sipe, a lower-left sipe and a lower-right sipe, each extending in a longitudinal direction.... Agent: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120103485 - Reduced weight precured tread band for retreaded tire: Embodiments include a retreaded tire having a precured tread band bonded to a prepared bonding surface of a base portion of the tire. The precured tread band may include a tread groove having a bottom and a top, the top of the groove open to a ground contacting front face... Agent: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

20120103486 - Retreaded tire: Embodiments include retreaded tires having a precured tread band bonded to a prepared bonding surface of a base portion of the tire, the tread band including a primary groove having a top open to a ground contacting front face of the tread band and a secondary groove having a bottom... Agent: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

20120103488 - Pneumatic tire: An intersection of an extended line of a shoulder side arc and an extended line of a side portion arc is a reference point P, an aspect ratio is β, and an angle θ formed by a straight line A joining the reference point P and a center crown CC... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120103490 - Pneumatic tire: A pneumatic tire including a closed sipe 5 in a land portion 3 formed in a tread surface 1, provided with at least three cuts 4 extending in a radiation direction from an imaginary axis 2 that extends in a depth direction of the land portion 3, and that terminate... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd

20120103489 - Tread band for retreaded tire: Included are tread bands for use on retreaded tires and methods for retreading a tire using such tread bands. Embodiments of such tread bands include a primary groove having a top opening that is open to a ground contacting front face of the tread band and a secondary groove having... Agent: Michelin Recherche Et Technique S.a.

20120103491 - Gripping edges for winter tire: A vehicle wheel tire includes a tire tread having a circumferential center tread region in which block elements are arranged in a symmetric pattern on opposite sides of a tire circumferential equatorial centerplane. The tread has one or more circumferential grooves bounded by edges of opposing block elements, pairs of... Agent:

20120103492 - Winter tire tread siping pattern: A vehicle wheel tire includes a tire tread having a circumferential center tread region in which block elements are arranged in a symmetric pattern on opposite sides of a tire circumferential equatorial centerplane. Symmetrically disposed block elements on opposite sides of the centerplane have a plurality of spaced apart and... Agent:

20120103493 - Winter tire center tread pattern: A vehicle wheel tire center tread region has a repeating circumferential array of first substantially V-shaped grooves positioned on the centerplane, each first V-shaped groove having divergent first groove side arms extending in a first circumferential direction, and a repeating circumferential array of second substantially V-shaped grooves positioned on the... Agent:

20120103494 - Pneumatic run flat tire: A reinforcing rubber layer having a falcated cross-section disposed on an inner side in a tire width direction of the carcass layer in a side wall portion. An angle θ, with respect to the total tire width SW and a tire cross-section height SH, satisfies a relationship (SH/SW×6+3)°≦θ≦(SH/SW×6+8)°. Additionally, a... Agent: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

20120103495 - Tire and wheel for a cycle: A tire for the wheel of a cycle, such as a bicycle, as well as a wheel equipped with such a tire, the tire having a substantially toroidal geometry and including a mounting base adapted to be fixed to a rim that is wider than the tire, when inflated, a... Agent: Mavic S.a.s.

20120103496 - Pneumatic tire with tie layer and method of making same: A pneumatic tire that includes a tread and a barrier layer disposed inwardly of the tread. The barrier layer includes a dynamically vulcanized alloy. A tire layer, e.g., a ply layer, is situated between the barrier layer and the tread and includes a rubber formulation having a diene rubber. A... Agent:

20120103497 - Pneumatic tire for heavy load: In a pneumatic tire for heavy load in which a rubber chafer 8 is disposed at least in a part brought into contact with a rim in a bead part 1, the rubber chafer uses a rubber composition which comprises 45 to 55 parts by mass of butadiene base rubbers... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20120103499 - Reinforcement comprising two reinforcing materials and tire comprising such a reinforcement: Tyre reinforcement (10) having a bi-material structure of reinforcing elements that consists of at least a plurality of extensible first reinforcing elements (1) and at least a plurality of inextensible second reinforcing elements (2), these first and second reinforcing elements being mutually parallel and distributed alternately in appropriate proportions in... Agent: Societe De Technologie Michelin

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